I am attempting to run Bering from a non-bootable CD which requires booting from floppy. I am presently running fine for over a year from two floppies but would like to have more packages than will fit on my two floppies. Is there explicit documentation on how to do this? (I found how to boot Bering from just CD and for Dach. how to boot from floppy and rest on CD.)
I think all I have to do is still go ahead and make a bootable CD (but can't boot it)
The CD doesn't have to be bootable...it just has to have the packages you want on it.
and tweak my 1st floppy to just get packages from CD instead of 2nd floppy,
...using the PKGPATH setting in the kernel command line. You should setup the PKGPATH= and BOOT= settings as they would be for a bootable CD, and everything should work.
> plus add the cd drivers to initrd on my 1st floppy. I think this will
work.
Yes, it should work.
Pointers or suggestions most welcomed!
The Dachstein boot disk used for DachsteinCD is probably the closest example to follow, as I believe most Bering users make bootable CDs with a different bootloader (rather than a bootable CD). The main difference between the Dachstein CD boot disk and one you'll make for Bering will be the disk size (1440K vs 1680K), and packages (I'd start with a full floppy version of Bering, while the Dachstein boot disk only has a minimal set of files for the bootloader, the kernel, and the initial ramdisk). You can always convert to a 1440K disk and fewer files once you get the system reading packages off the CD.
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